Distinguished speakers, Coast Guardsmen, media and guests attend a ceremony on the Coast Guard Training Center Cape May’s beach Jan. 18, 2012 to mark the end of a significant beach rebuild and replenishment project. Before the project commenced, the guests seen in the photo would have been under about six feet of water. View and download this image from the Coast Guard Visual Information Gallery.
Replenishment project of Cape May’s beaches marked complete
Benjamin Keiser, manager of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Coastal Engineering, Capt. William Kelly, commander of Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, Lt. Col. Phillip Secrist, commander of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, and Mayor Edward Mahaney, city of Cape May, ceremonially distribute the final load of sand onto the beach at the training center Jan 18, 2012. The ceremony marks the end of a significant beach replenishment project. View and download this image from the Coast Guard Visual Information Gallery.
Representatives from the Coast Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection completed a $9 million replenishment project when they dispersed the last load of more than 620,000 cubic yards of sand placed on Coast Guard Training Center Cape May's beaches January 18. The beach at Training Center Cape May is considered a feeder beach, and ocean currents will carry sand placed there to popular recreational beaches in the City of Cape May. The coastal replenishment, last conducted in spring 2009, replaced areas affected by some of the worst coastal erosion seen in the Cape May area over the past 20 years.
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